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TEXTILE
NAMESYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
AUTHOR
SEE ALSO
NAME
textile - Translate Textile markup language to HTML
SYNOPSIS
# translate a
text file to HTML, print to screen
textile file.txt
# translate a snippet of text to HTML
echo "hi there" | textile
# translate a text file, output to a file
textile -outfile out.html file.txt
# translate a text file, output to a legal full HTML file
# (By default, textile doesn't output <html>,
<head> and <body> tags)
textile -fullpage -outfile out.html file.txt
# translate a text file, output to a legal full HTML file,
add title
# (-title implies -fullpage)
textile -title "My <blink>133t</blink> web
page" -outfile out.html file.txt
DESCRIPTION
This program uses Brad Choateβs Text::Textile module to convert text in the Textile markup language into HTML. For example, it will convert "_hi_ there" to "<p><em>hi</em> there</p>". Textile (developed by Dean Allen of <http://textism.com> lets you quickly write simple (or not so simple) text that (a) can be read as is, and (b) turns into readable HTML.
AUTHOR
Amir Karger, akarger@cpan.org
Brad Choate built Text::Textile Dean Allen of Textism.com developed Textile.
SEE ALSO
Text::Textile, <http://textism.com>